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Battleground Poll: Hike taxes on rich

The GOP nominee has ridden into the sunset since losing last month, though he did pop up at a boxing match Saturday night, while the man he picked as his running mate has returned to his perch at the chairman of the House Budget Committee.

“The Republicans are in real need of a leader,” said Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, who helped conduct the bipartisan poll. “The Republicans need a new spokesman. They haven’t got a popular voice out there. They’re hard-pressed to put Ryan forward because of his positions on Medicare and Social Security.”

President Barack Obama is viewed favorably by 52 percent of Americans, and his job approval rating is 50 percent.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, commands a 60 percent favorability rating in the poll conducted last week — good tidings for someone viewed as a possible front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. She’s viewed positively by 87 percent of Democrats and 31 percent of Republicans.

The perceived front-runner to succeed Clinton at Foggy Bottom, Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, is viewed more unfavorably than favorably by 3 percentage points, 29 to 26 percent. One in four Americans have not heard of her despite the intensive coverage of her role in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and one in five said they don’t know enough to offer an opinion.

Only 29 percent see House Speaker John Boehner, the lead Republican negotiator in fiscal cliff talks, in a positive light. Thirty-four percent view him negatively and 24 percent have never heard of him.

Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican laying the groundwork for a 2016 run at the presidency, remains undefined. Thirty-six percent of Americans have never heard of him. Another 17 percent don’t know enough to offer an opinion. One in three surveyed like him, and 14 percent don’t like what they’ve seen so far.

Many Republican heavyweights view Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, as a star 2016 contender. But the famous last name still dogs him. While 39 percent view him favorably, 34 percent view him unfavorably.

“The reason why Jeb Bush didn’t run this year is because he knew they were not past the Bush years,” said Republican pollster Ed Goeas, who also helped conduct the bipartisan poll.

Exit polls conducted on Election Day last month in Florida found that 53 percent said former President George W. Bush was more to blame for the current economic problems than Obama.

The POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll, conducted by the Tarrance Group and Lake Research Partners, surveyed 1,000 registered likely voters from Dec. 2 to Dec. 6 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Many polls have given both Marco Rubio and Michelle Obama high approval ratings.

Will Michelle Obama pick Hillary Clinton as her VP after the tape of Hillary saying that she takes full responsibility for the murder of our gay Ambassador Chris Stevens is played again and again during the 2016 campaign? IMO, I would enjoy seeing the first " FIRST LADY TICKET ".

Will the 2016 Democrats suffer from Obama's Fiscal Cliff tragedies that will give the GOP an easy win?

Good luck with this one Repubs - you have NO ONE in the pipe that you can send down that can hold a candle to Hillary. That's just a fact. If you had, you'd have sent someone better down to defeat Obama but you didn't. Why? BECAUSE ON ONE EXISTS WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY that's why.

Notice how quickly Romney, their national standard barrier and great white hope who was riding in to save America to create full employment at "good-paying jobs" was quickly thrown under the bus. Grover Norquist, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News apparently have more sway with the self-serving, greedy and bigoted GOP.

Will the 2016 Democrats suffer from Obama's Fiscal Cliff tragedies that will give the GOP an easy win?

The GOP deluded itself into thinking 2012 would be an easy win. We all know how that worked out.

As to the Fiscal Cliff, this is more loony Republican thinking. Just like Boehner, you ignorantly want the President to be responsible for being the President AND want to blame him for not doing John Boehner's job at the same time, despite the fact that this is a LEGISLATIVE issue.

This is a prime example of how living in an alternate universe is possible. Well, I'm sure in your alternate universe, Romney won and the GOP now has a super majority in the House, Senate, and every single Governorship across 50 states. Why not go big or go home I guess. lol

Hey GOP maybe time will help people forget how truly _ucked you guys are in national elections. But judging by what I see in the negotiations with the "Fiscal Cliff" I doubt it. You guys and gals just dont get it and frankly its amazing to me!